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3.
DISCOVER & CONNECT
Scenario
A researcher is attending a conference presentation and is
interested in the topic and the speaker
Problem
Finding more information about them is currently done in an
ad hoc way
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19.
BACK-END: RESEARCH.FM metadata will be exposed in a standardized results format, in order to be intero
Table 1 shows some URIs example calls to retrieve author, publication an
tools metadata.
Table 1. URI examples to retrieve research metadata.
• Common RESTful API Social Tool /<author_id>/social_tools
/<author_id>
Author /<author_id>/publications
• Cool URI approach /<author_id>/lastpublication
The URIs provide us a logic and readable URL to obtain different kind of m
elements from a researcher, such as: list of publications, current publicati
social tools handles. Currently, there are some discussions about how to c
identify the authors among different platforms and how to link his digital id
• Standardized results format
On the other hand, we are also discussing which is the way to represent the m
and the output format for the API, in order to provide the desired interoperabi
this purpose, we are revising some publications and online community on
such as: SWRC [13] and SIOC [14]; together with social network approaches
• SWRC, SIOC, data as: OpenSocial [12] and FOAF [15].
OpenSocial, FOAF
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